The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.
Much of the foundation of our criminal justice system is derived from slave patrols and was created when African Americans could still be bought, sold, and traded.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
I am the descendant of slaves, of people that were born from a slave and a slave master.
If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.
I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.